Travel and inspiration
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. — Seneca
I’m feeling existential. I’ve been traveling through Germany with my family for a week and a half. We’ve visited over a dozen palaces, churches, memorials, and museums in Munich, Nuremberg, Bamberg, and Berlin.
What I’ve seen and experienced has shaken me to my core. While I was aware of the significant milestones in European, North African, and Middle Eastern history, it wasn’t until I experienced these places and artifacts in person that I realized that having any of these artifacts and historical sites is such a gift.
It’s incredible that we have evidence of our ancient past. Surviving evidence of any life on Earth from our past is a rounding error approaching zero of a Poisson distribution of unlikely artifacts that we still have today. While we have many fossil records and ancient artifacts, most of the evidence that ever has existed does not exist anymore. The rare exceptions are ancient civilizations and organic matter, which encoded their history in stone.
I have more thoughts on this, but I’ll save that for another day.
Notable links this week
Interviewed Neal Ford, co-author of Fundamentals of Software Architecture, on Book Overflow
Discussed Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers (part 1) on Book Overflow
Watched Ali Abdaal’s review on Cal Newport’s new book Slow Productivity (we’ve added it to the Book Overflow Backlog)
Enjoyed this read on Quartz: a deterministic time testing library for Go
Somehow, I just stumbled upon shadcn/ui - what a cool project.
Well, a lot of it got destroyed by the Allies when they destroyed Germany with the help of the Russian communists (who practiced mass murder just as well -- it was simply a sign of Europe becoming non-Christian, even atheistic.) Vox Day, author of "The Irrational Atheist", "On the existence of gods" and "Cuckservative. How 'Conservatices' Betrayed America" (apart from fantasy and sci-fi literature):
https://voxday.net/2009/09/22/letter-to-common-sense-atheism-i/
https://voxday.net/2009/10/03/letter-to-common-sense-atheism-ii/
https://voxday.net/2009/10/15/letter-to-common-sense-atheism-iii/
https://voxday.net/2009/10/23/letter-to-common-sense-atheism-iv/
https://voxday.net/2009/11/04/letter-to-common-sense-atheism-v/
https://voxday.net/2009/12/06/letter-to-common-sense-atheism-vi/
https://voxday.net/2009/10/01/letter-from-common-sense-atheism-ii/
https://voxday.net/2009/10/19/letter-to-vox-day-iv/
https://voxday.net/2009/10/29/letter-to-vox-day-v/
Also, the West is getting replaced demographyically anyway, which means that such sites will not be in shape anymore if Europeans don't survive and throw most non-European migrants out. Otherwise, it will just become a wasteland as Guillaume Faye imagined it. After all, even Martin van Creveld, leading military historian, concluded in his essay "War and Migration" -- in: There Will Be War Volume X: History's End -- that migration is war and vice versa. See also recent posts by Vox Day:
https://voxday.net/2024/09/19/the-economic-decline-of-germany/
https://voxday.net/2024/02/12/the-third-economic-destruction-of-germany/
https://voxday.net/2024/02/08/communism-clown-world/
Regarding fossils and so on, this shows that Vox Day is correct and Darwinism to be rejected. He leveled an argument against TENS -- Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection --: https://voxday.net/2024/01/19/evolution-and-ai-fraud/